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Thousands of users reported problems as they tried to entry Twitter Saturday, marking the latest widespread outage since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk acquired the social media web site late final 12 months.
Many users who tried to entry or submit content material on Twitter’s web site or cellular app have been met with a “Rate restrict exceeded” or “Cannot retrieve tweets” error message. As of 11 a.m. ET, greater than 7,300 folks reported points with Twitter to the web site Downdetector.
Twitter responded to CNBC’s request for remark with its customary poop emoji.
Saturday’s outage shouldn’t be the primary time Twitter has suffered technical difficulties in latest months. In February, users have been unable to submit on the positioning for about 90 minutes after receiving a message that learn, “You are over the every day restrict for sending Tweets.” In March, users have been quickly unable to click on on hyperlinks or load photographs.
Other outages coincided with stories of a data center closure and massive layoffs at Twitter, which Musk claimed have been crucial for the monetary well being of the corporate.
It is unclear when Saturday’s outage will likely be resolved.
CORRECTION: This article has been up to date to point out that Elon Musk is not CEO of Twitter. He is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.